Window curtain and shade adjuster.



UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

OLYDE BRYAN, OF SALEM, OHIO.

WINDOW CURTAIN AND SHADE ADJUSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,589, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed May 11, 1904. Serial No. 207,362.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, CLYDE BRYAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salem, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vindow Curtain and Shade Adjusters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, ret'- erence being' had to the annexed drawings, making' a part of this specification, and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, in whichA Fig'ure l is a side elevation of a windowt'rame, showing the ditferent parts of my improved window curtain and shade adjuster properly connected and illustrating a shade and curtain placed in position. Fig. 2 is view of one of the guide-tubes, showing' said tube partly in section and illustrating the shade and curtain holding rod located therein, also showing the position of the clamping-knob. Fig'. 3 is a transverse section taken on line O C, Fig. 2, except that in Fig'. 2 the tube is shown in section, while in Fig. 3 the tube is shown full. Fig. -iL is aview oi' one of the guide-tube-holding' sockets, showing aportion of the windowframe. Fig. 5 is a transverse section or' the guide-tube and curtain and shade holding' rod, showing' the position of the clamping-knob. Fig'. 6 is a view showing' a portion of the shade and curtain holding' rods and illustrating one ot' the curtain-brackets tixed thereto.

The present invention has relation to window curtain and shade adjusters; and it consists in the novel arrangement hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Similar numerals or' reference indicate corresponding' parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, V1 represents the guide-tubes, which are secured to the window-frame 2 and located substantially as shown in Fig'. 1.

The tubes 1 are supported by means of thev sockets 3, which sockets are secured to the window-frame 2 and into which sockets the bottom or lower ends or' the guide-tubes 1 are seated, substantially as illustrated in Figs. l and 2.

(No model.)

The top or upper ends of the g'uide-tubes 1 are held in proper position by means ot' the screw-eyes 4, which screw-eyes are provided with the inturned flanges 5, which flanges iit in the open slots 6, formed in the guide-tubes 1.

It will be understood that the guide-tubes 1 should be held so that they cannot rock or turn, and in order to accomplish this result the sockets 3 are provided with the set-screws7 and the i'langes 5, seated in the slots 6, thereby preventing any twisting' or turning' of the guide-tubes.

W'ithin the g'uide-tubes 1 are located the shade and curtain holding' rods 8, which rods are adapted t'o move up and down in the guidetubes 1. lo the rods 8 are attached the curtainpole-holding' brackets 9 and the shade-holding brackets l0 and 11, said brackets being of the usual construction used in supporting shade-rollers known as spring-rollers.

For the purpose oi' holding' the rods 8 at any desired point ot' adjustment each of the rods are provided with the screw-threaded shank 12 and upon which screw-threaded shank is located the knob 13, and between the guidetubes 1 and the inner ends of the knobs 13 are located the binding-plates 14.

It will be understood that when the knobs 13 are turned in one direction they will release the rods 8, at which time they are free to be moved up and down in the guide-tubes, thereby adjusting' the curtain-pole bracket and shade-roller brackets to any desired point, and when saidparts have been brough-t into proper adjustment the knobs 13 are turned in the direction to clamp the rods 8 and hold them at the desired point of adjustment.

It will be understood that by providing' the screw-eyes 4: with the inturned iianges 5 said eyes can be adjusted up and down, or, in other words, can be attached at the most convenient point or points of the window-frame proper, owing to the fact that the inturned flanges 5 can be moved up and down through the slots 6, or the tubes 1 can be moved upward afterthe screw-eyes have been properly attached and the bottom or lower ends of the tubes seated in their sockets.

Having fully described my invention, what IO holding the curtain and shade bracket rods in proper adjustment, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence' of two Witnesses.

CLYDE BRYAN.

Witnesses:

J. A. JEFFERS, F. W. BOND. 

